Releasing device for burial-vault cores.



J. L. GASKILL.

- RELEASING DEVIUE FOR BURIAL VAULT GORES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1908.

909,394. Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

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JAMES L. GASKILL, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOnEPHG. WESSENDORF AND ONE-THIRD TO GEORGE E. IRWIN, OF HANDLEY, TEXAS.

BELEASING DEVIJE FOR BTTEEAL-VAULT COEtES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

Application filed September 11, 1908. Serial No. IE-52,593.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES L. GASKILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort l/Vorth, county of T arrant, and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Releasing Device forBurial-Vault Cores, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for releasing the interior cores ofburial vaults and more particularly to means for moving the cores toallow for shrinking of the vaults, and the object is to provide simpleand inexpensive devices for withdrawing and holding the cores of burialvaults at any desirable position so that the cores can be movedsulficiently to allow the vaults to shrink and to hold the cores rigidlyat any position to which they may be withdrawn from the vault.

Other objects and advantages will be fully ex lained in the descriptionand the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of thisapplication and specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the devices constituting my invention. Fig. 2is a vertical section along the line at x of Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same partsthroughout the several 'views.

The invention is illustrated in connection with the molds of avault-making plant. A frame for supporting the exterior molds consistsof the side beams 1 and 2 and cross beams 3 and i which are securelyattached to the side beams 1 and 2. This frame supports the exteriormolds 5 and also supports the formed vault 6. The interior molds or core7 is supported on vertically movable cross-beams 8 which move verticallyin slots 9 in the side beams 1 and 2. The cross beams 8 are supported onhand-screws 10 which operate through bearing beams 11, two hand screwsoperating through each bearing beam. The bearing beams are suspendedfrom the side beams 1 and 2 by means of hooks or hangers 12 which passaround under the beams 11 and then extend upwardly and engage the sidebeams 1 and 2. The beams 8 may be elevated or lowered by turning thehand screws 10. The slots or grooves 9 in the side beams form ways orguides for the supporting beams 8. The hand-screws 10 and the bearingbeams 11 cooperate to hold the core 7 at any desired elevation. The core7 is forced out of the formed vault by hooked bolts 13 operating throughdraw beams 14. The draw beams 14, when in operation, rest against thebottom of the side beams 1 and 2. The hooked bolts 13 engage cooperatinghooks or staples 15 which are mounted in or attached to the core byinserting the same into cross pieces 16 which are rigid with the core 7Nuts 17 are used to draw the hooked bolts 13 down through the draw beams14 when the core is to be loosened from the formed vault. It will beapparent that the draw beams with their hoolred bolts can be used withdifferent frames so that the draw beams can be removed when the fra neis used to move the formed vault to a storage place. The supportingbeams 8 with the bearing beams 11 and hand-screws 10 are also removablefrom the frame for the same reason. The frames are thus separable fromthe operating mechanism.

The operation is simple. The core is adjusted by means of the supportingbeams and the hand screws. The exterior molds are then placed about thecore. The material for forming the vault is put in place. When thematerial is partly dried or set, the core may be drawn down slightly oras much as may be necessary by the nuts 17. The hand screws 10 will haveto be turned also so that the supporting 8 will be lowered. The core canthus be lowered to any distance desired to allow the newly formed vaultto shrink and at whatever distance the core is lowered it is fixedagainst movement until it is necessary to lower the core again. In thismanner the vaults are prevented from cracking. The frame which carriesthe vaults and the exterior molds may be mounted at such elevation asmay be necessary to permit the core to be removed from the bottom of theframe. It is apparent that the devices herein shown may be used witheither rigid cores or knoclodown cores.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,

1. A core releasing device for burial vaults comprising a supportingframe for the vault having vertical guide ways, core supporting l beamsmovable vertically in said guide ways,

moving said beams vertically,- drawtbars to bear against the undersideof said frame, and

. hooked. boltsand nuts therefor foridrawing I said core towards saidsupporting beams.

In testimony whereof, I set my hand in the presence of two witnesses,this 2nd day of Sepember, 1908.

JAMES L. GASKILL.

bearing beams suspended on said frame, hand-screws operating throughsaid bearing beamsto move said core supporting beams vertically, andmeans for causing said core to follow said core supporting beams down-Wardly.

2. A core releasing device for burial vaults comprising a supportingframe for the vaults horizontally disposed and having verticalWitnesses: guide Ways, core supporting beams'movable A. L. JACKSON,

, J. WV. STITT.

vertically in said guide Ways, means for

